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Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman

The Medora Edition

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First edition of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman by Theodore Roosevelt, known as The Medora Edition and limited to 500 copies.

Quarto, xvi, 318pp, [4]. Bound in the publisher’s three-quarter levant over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine, gilt-ruled bands with gilt decorations. Top edge gilt, laid-in silk bookmark, marbled endpapers. From the library of John Gerard Heckscher, with his bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. Front hinge reinforced; no further archival restoration noted. Stamp of G.P. Putnam’s Sons on verso of front free endpaper. Complete with four India-proof impressions of etchings by R. Swain Gifford, seven Japan-proof impressions of drawings by J.C. Beard and twenty other full-page illustrated plates by A.B. Frost, Fannie E. Gifford and Henry Sandham. This Medora Edition was limited to 500 copies, this being number 373. (Cole & Vail, A6) (Howes R430) (Graf 3560) A scarce example of this edition.

The first edition of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, known as The Medora Edition, was limited to 500 copies. There were a number of luxury editions offered for sale, including this copy in three quarter levant, which sold for $22.50. An edition in full seal sold for $27.50, full polished levant for $32.00 and olive crushed levant for $75.00. Roosevelt himself contributed $5,000 towards the publication of this work, but sales were not strong, and he did not recoup his investment until many years later.

Additional information

Location Published

New York

Publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press

Edition

The Medora Edition

Date Published

1885

Binding

Quarter Leather

Condition

Near Fine

Author

Roosevelt | Theodore

Author Display

Theodore Roosevelt